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Me: Stories of My Life QUOTES

Me: Stories of My Life QUOTES

1 " Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

2 " We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

3 " Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

4 " Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

5 " You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'--you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'--you can win. It's when you stop that you're done. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

6 " Fuck the roots. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

7 " Listen to the Song of Life "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

8 " My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

9 " Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love... "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

10 " Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

11 " Connecticut. Aren’t we lucky? We have wonderful wildflowers—parks—hills—lovely old houses. We have a pace that we like—sometimes slow—sometimes fast. Rivers—reservoirs—Long Island Sound. A wonderful climate—trees—gardens—snow—rain. And it’s a good size—not huge—not small. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

12 " To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

13 " He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

14 " Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

15 " So just keep a-goin'-you can win. It's when you stop that you're done. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

16 " It seems to me I discovered what "I love you" really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you, "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

17 " I loved Spencer Tracy. He and his interests and his demands came first. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

18 " I'd always wanted to be a boy. Jimmy was my name, if you want to know. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

19 " two people who are used to having their own way should stay separate "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life

20 " Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested. "

― Katharine Hepburn , Me: Stories of My Life